There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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