I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAMemory at last has what I sought.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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 drowning in papers.
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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.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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