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.
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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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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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.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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