Death Quote by Anna Kamienska

I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.

— Anna Kamienska

Where your pain is, there your heart lies also.

— Anna Kamienska

“No home anymore. Nowhere to return. My house is a ruin, a cemetery. You may yearn for the grave, but just try living there.”

— Anna Kamienska

Tell me what's the difference

— Anna Kamienska

“Lack of Faith" Yes, even when I don’t believe— there is a place in me inaccessible to unbelief, a patch of wild grace, a…

— Anna Kamieńska

Even a painful longing is some form of presence.

— Anna Kamienska

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the…

— Anna Kamienska

I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level of being.

— Anna Kamienska

The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That’s the way…

— Anna Kamienska

I am that which lies beyond time. Like a melody, which sounds completely only after the last note is played.

— Anna Kamienska

Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that.

— Anna Kamienska

I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.

— Anna Kamienska