I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAfter every war someone has to tidy up.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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 started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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