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!
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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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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