I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m drowning in papers.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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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 absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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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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