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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThere’s simply too much fuss about myself.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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