“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” KnowsHeartLostWaitingDifferencesCuttingMy HeartGlassesFog 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.” ValuesUnderstandingLevelsConversationConnectionsRemainsConfusionI've LearnedUnsaidMissed 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.” WritingI CanWishThroat 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.” KindSoundSilenceNeededQuietSpeechMusic IsVariousLayers Author:Anna Kamienska
“The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.” TwoFivePerspectiveAttractionFormulas Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that.” WritingLastsWallLettersCellsLast Words 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.” WayLooksLightBlackEffortAirPoetSourceDespairMusclesGesturesStrain Author:Anna Kamienska
“I am that which lies beyond time. Like a melody, which sounds completely only after the last note is played.” LastsLyingSoundNotesMelody Author:Anna Kamienska