I’m drowning in papers.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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