I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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