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.
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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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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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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’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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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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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.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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