The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANo one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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