Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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 prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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