I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAMemory at last has what I sought.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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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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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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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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