"I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems."

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Source : Wislawa Szymborska, “Possibilities”

Wislawa Szymborska

#Writing Quotes #Absurdity Quotes

“I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.”
“I've always wanted to be a guy with a rec room.”
“As important as the father is in the life of a child, even he must take second place to mother during the first three years of life.... Consequently, mothers actually have more to do with producing a predisposition toward homosexuality than fathers. Two kinds of mothers are particularly harmful - smother mothers and dominating mothers.”
“And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.”
“The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.”

Source : Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Childhood and Society”, p.222, W. W. Norton & Company
“The house begins to be a home. The unfamiliar places are beginning to fold the familiar objects into their keeping and to cozy them down. Objects that swore at each other when the movers heaved them into the new rooms have subsided into corners and sit to lick their feet and wash their faces like cats accepting a new home.”
“The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own.”
“You're never allowed to step on people to get ahead, but you can step over them if they're in your way.”

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