Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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’m drowning in papers.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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