I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASuch certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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!
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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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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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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