I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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