Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGet to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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