I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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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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’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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’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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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