Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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 in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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