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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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