You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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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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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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