I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKADying – you can’t do that to a cat.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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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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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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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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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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