Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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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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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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