Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhen 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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