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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAPoets 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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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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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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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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