I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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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 cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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