I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASecret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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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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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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