Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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