Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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