Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhen it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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