Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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When 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.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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