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Inspirational Quotes by Wislawa Szymborska
- Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.
- There's simply too much fuss about myself,
- In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
- After every war someone has to tidy up.
- Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan
- It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
- All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
- I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
- I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
- I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
- Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
- Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
- All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
- Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
- I'm drowning in papers.
- Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
- I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
- When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
- I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento