Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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