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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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 started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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