I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThis terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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 one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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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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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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