When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANo day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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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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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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’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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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