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.
There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely - Wislawa Szymborska
There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
- Wislawa Szymborska
Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... T… - Wislawa Szymborska
Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... T…
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. - Wislawa Szymborska
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know. - Wislawa Szymborska
Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.
Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still - Wislawa Szymborska
Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order. - Wislawa Szymborska
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political st… - Wislawa Szymborska
Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political st…
And whatever I do will become forever what I've done. - Wislawa Szymborska
And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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 inspira… - Wislawa Szymborska
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 inspira…
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