Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGet to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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