There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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 one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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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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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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