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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThey say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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 slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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