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 SZYMBORSKADying – you can’t do that to a cat.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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 cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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