Memory at last has what I sought.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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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 drowning in papers.
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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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