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 like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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 imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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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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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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