Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAMy 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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