Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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’m drowning in papers.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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