Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKALet the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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