Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAll the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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