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Such certainty is beautiful, b...

Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still

Wislawa Szymborska 104 quotes

There's simply too much fuss a...

There's simply too much fuss about myself,

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Generally speaking, life is so...

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.

Wislawa Szymborska 104 quotes

Sometimes I write quickly, som...

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!

Wislawa Szymborska 104 quotes

Everyone needs solitude, espec...

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

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In every tragedy, an element o...

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

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I have sympathy for young peop...

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.

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Life lasts but a few scratches...

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

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Nothing can ever happen twice....

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

Wislawa Szymborska 104 quotes

Inspiration is not the exclusi...

Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination...Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.

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What does the world get from t...

What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?

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Their faith will make it easie...

Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

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I'm old-fashioned and think th...

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

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The joy of writing. The power ...

The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

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Whatever inspiration is, it's ...

Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.

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I like being near the top of a...

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

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Four billion people on this ea...

Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go blindly by, never coming to mind and never really missed. . . . I can't tell you how much I pass over in silence.

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All the best have something in...

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.

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Carry on, then, if only for th...

Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!

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Contemporary poets are skeptic...

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were a little ashamed of it. But in our clamorous times it's much easier to acknowledge your faults, at least if they're attractively packaged, than to recognize your own merits, since these are hidden deeper and you never quite believe in them yourself.

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