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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKADying – you can’t do that to a cat.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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