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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASomething 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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’m drowning in papers.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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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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