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Anna Kamienska quotes: 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?

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?

Anna Kamienska quotes: Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell's wall. To write like that.

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

Anna Kamienska quotes: Where your pain is, there your heart lies also.

Where your pain is, there your heart lies also.

Anna Kamienska quotes: Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

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

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

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

Anna Kamienska quotes: We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.

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

Anna Kamienska quotes: Tell me what's the difference

Tell me what's the difference

Anna Kamienska quotes: Can you think yourself to death?

Can you think yourself to death?

Anna Kamienska quotes: We create eternity out of crumbs of time.

We create eternity out of crumbs of time.

Anna Kamienska quotes: I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that's all.

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

Anna Kamienska quotes: I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.

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

Anna Kamienska quotes: There are things better left untouched by words ...

There are things better left untouched by words ...

Anna Kamienska quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

Anna Kamienska quotes: To write incorporeal poems, almost without words. To approximate the impossible, where art disappears and the Word becomes.

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

Anna Kamienska quotes: I have hands full of this radiance. It flows through my fingers. It doesn't diminish.

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

Anna Kamienska quotes: Even a painful longing is some form of presence.

Even a painful longing is some form of presence.

Anna Kamienska quotes: I don't write poetry when I wish, I write when I can't, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.

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 quotes: I returnedto confirmthere can be no return.

I returned
to confirm
there can be no return.

Anna Kamienska quotes: I'm moved by everything broken and crippled. Since that's how we really are.

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