I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAMemory at last has what I sought.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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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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