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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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’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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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