There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGet to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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