Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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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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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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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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