I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASecret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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