Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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