The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKATheir faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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