There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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 the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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