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 notes intensify the inner life, which, left unexpressed, slips through your fingers. If only I could find a better kind of journal, humbler, one that would preserve the same thoughts, the same flesh of life, which is worth saving.
There are things better left untouched by words. - Anna Kamienska
There are things better left untouched by words.
- Anna Kamienska
I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all. - Anna Kamienska
I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all.
I am that which lies beyond time. Like a melody, which sounds completely only after the last note is played. - Anna Kamienska
I am that which lies beyond time. Like a melody, which sounds completely only after the last note is played.
Even a painful longing is some form of presence. - Anna Kamienska
Even a painful longing is some form of presence.
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 l… - 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 a poet l…
I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on anothe… - Anna Kamienska
I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on anothe…
Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that. - Anna Kamienska
Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that.
I returned to confirm there can be no return. - Anna Kamienska
I returned to confirm there can be no return.
I’m moved by everything broken and crippled. Since that’s how we really are. - Anna Kamienska
I’m moved by everything broken and crippled. Since that’s how we really are.
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