I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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