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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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