I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAPoorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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