There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANo one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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