It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASomewhere out there the world must have an end.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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 started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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