Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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 cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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