"I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to……" — Wislawa Szymborska
"I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems."
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63 Quotes by Wislawa Szymborska
Wislawa Szymborska has 63 quotes on this site.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the…
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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There's simply too much fuss about myself,
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is…
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not…
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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in…
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of…
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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out…
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe…
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we…
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The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by…
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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and…
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,…
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