All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThough I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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