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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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