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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice.
— Wislawa Szymborska
How should we live? someone asked me in a letter.
I had meant to ask him
the same question.
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I had meant to ask him
the same question.
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The track's all yours. We won't get in your way: by then we will have set off chasing ourselves rather than you.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.
— Wislawa Szymborska
What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
— Wislawa Szymborska
No one feels good at four in the morning.
If ants feel good at four in the morning
- three cheers for the ants. — Wislawa Szymborska
If ants feel good at four in the morning
- three cheers for the ants. — Wislawa Szymborska
Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Even if you bar my way,
even if you stare me in the face,
I'll pass you by on the chasm's edge, finer than a hair. — Wislawa Szymborska
even if you stare me in the face,
I'll pass you by on the chasm's edge, finer than a hair. — Wislawa Szymborska
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems. — Wislawa Szymborska
to the absurdity of not writing poems. — Wislawa Szymborska
A thousand and one is still only a thousand. That one seems never to have existed: a
— Wislawa Szymborska
Memories come to mind like excavated statues
that have misplaced their heads. — Wislawa Szymborska
that have misplaced their heads. — Wislawa Szymborska
You know, I'm worried about Szymborska. I wish she would stop smoking.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Woods disguised as woods alive without end, and above them birds in flight play birds in flight.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
— Wislawa Szymborska
I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
— Wislawa Szymborska
We, too, can divide ourselves, it's true. / But only into flesh and a broken whisper. / Into flesh and poetry.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
— Wislawa Szymborska
I am my own obstacle.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
— Wislawa Szymborska
I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
— Wislawa Szymborska
I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
— Wislawa Szymborska
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.
— Wislawa Szymborska
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
— Wislawa Szymborska
It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
— Wislawa Szymborska
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
— Wislawa Szymborska
I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
— Wislawa Szymborska
You should learn Polish and read Szymborska!
— Kevin Hearne
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
— Wislawa Szymborska