Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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