Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhen I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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