Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAll the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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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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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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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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