What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKADying – you can’t do that to a cat.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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