Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAPoets 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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Let 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.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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