I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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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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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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