Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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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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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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