My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKADying – you can’t do that to a cat.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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