Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m drowning in papers.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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