I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAll is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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