Top 27 Anna Kamienska Quotes

#1. We create eternity out of crumbs of time.

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#2. We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.

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#3. To write incorporeal poems, almost without words. To approximate the impossible, where art disappears and the Word becomes.

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#4. Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

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

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#6. I returned
to confirm
there can be no return.

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#7. Tell me what's the difference
between hope and waiting
because my heart doesn't know
It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting
It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope

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#8. I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that's all.

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#9. 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 yourself to death?

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#10. The immense light. A state of inner emergency and waiting ... This luminosity does not negate reason or any rational sense. It simply exists. A kind of poetic sensibility open to the world. To everything
grand and small.

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#11. During the sleepless hours of the night
a thought came to me that seemed important. I got up in the dark and wrote it down. In the morning I read: 'I went looking for loneliness. But it found me.

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#12. 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 stubborn preserve,
impenetrable,
pain untouched by the sleeping body,
music that builds its nest in silence.

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#13. I have hands full of this radiance. It flows through my fingers. It doesn't diminish.

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

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#15. I received the grace of shadows. The grace of remaining in the dark.
- From A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook

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

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#17. Tell me what's the difference

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#18. Can you think yourself to death?

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#19. Where your pain is, there your heart lies also.

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#20. 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 poet looks for words. With muscles, gestures.

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#21. 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 layers of silence.

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

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#23. 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.

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#24. Even a painful longing is some form of presence.

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

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#26. There are things better left untouched by words ...

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#27. I'm moved by everything broken and crippled. Since that's how we really are.

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