There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAMy 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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