Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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