I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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