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 SZYMBORSKAI’m drowning in papers.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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