Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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