I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAPoetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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