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 SZYMBORSKAThere is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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I’m drowning in papers.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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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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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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