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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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 cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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