I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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