There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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