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?

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.

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

Tell me what's the difference

Iâ??ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is whatâ??s unsaid, whatâ??s underneath. Understanding on another level of being.

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

Even a painful longing is some form of presence.

There are things better left untouched by words â?¦

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

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.

I returned to confirm there can be no return.

Where your pain is, there your heart lies also.

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