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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASomething 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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 drowning in papers.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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