I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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