I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThe joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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 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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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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