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Anna Kamienska, a Polish poet, was born on April 12, 1920, and passed away on May 10, 1986. Her poetry is renowned for its profound emotion and unique style, which has won her a wide audience.

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Thinking Knows Lost Morning Emptiness Detachment Numbness Lost In Thought

Author:Anna Kamienska

“Even a painful longing is some form of presence.”

Form Longing Painful

Author:Anna Kamienska

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

Men Stills Drowning Straws

Author:Anna Kamienska

“Tell me what's the difference”

Differences Patience

Author:Anna Kamienska

“Where your pain is, there your heart lies also.”

Heart Pain Lying

Author:Anna Kamienska

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

Writing Order

Author:Anna Kamienska

“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”

Knows Heart Lost Waiting Differences Cutting My Heart Glasses Fog

Author: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.”

Values Understanding Levels Conversation Connections Remains Confusion I've Learned Unsaid Missed Connections

Author: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.”

Writing I Can Wish Throat

Author:Anna Kamienska

“I returned to confirm there can be no return.”

Return

Author: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 various layers of silence.”

Kind Sound Silence Needed Quiet Speech Music Is Various Layers

Author:Anna Kamienska

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

Writing Lasts Wall Letters Cells Last Words

Author:Anna Kamienska

“Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.”

Poetry Is

Author: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 looks for words. With muscles, gestures.”

Way Looks Light Black Effort Air Poet Source Despair Muscles Gestures Strain

Author:Anna Kamienska

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

Lasts Lying Sound Notes Melody

Author:Anna Kamienska

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

Thinking Writing Talent

Author:Anna Kamienska

“There are things better left untouched by words.”

Left

Author:Anna Kamienska

“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.”

Ifs Should Writing Kind Hands Left Goes On Letting Go Notes Fingers Flesh Saving Preserves Slips Narcissism Journal Inner Life Eccentricity

Author:Anna Kamienska

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

Broken Moved Crippled

Author:Anna Kamienska

About the Author

Born: April 12, 1920
Died: May 10, 1986
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 19

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