I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven the worst book can give us something to think about.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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