Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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