Anna Kamienska Quotes

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• Tell me what's the difference
• Where your pain is, there your heart lies also.
• I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.
• 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.
• I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.
• My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various…
• Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that.
• Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.
• 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 a…
• I am that which lies beyond time. Like a melody, which sounds completely only after the last note is played.
• I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all.
• There are things better left untouched by words …
• Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand, these…
• I’m moved by everything broken and crippled. Since that’s how we really are.
• This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think…

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