They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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