I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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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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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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