Quotes
Authors
Wislawa Szymborska

"Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre."

-- Wislawa Szymborska

#Self Quotes #Effort Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.”
“In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?”

Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.147, Scholastic Inc.
“Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell is a great writer and an ordinary man; and they are two of a kind, abysmal melancholics and compulsive socializers, afraid of solitude and afraid of death and dissolution, victims of themselves, meant for each other, needing each other, needing evidence and arguments (Boswell is a lawyer, Johnson magisterially dictates to him some of his briefs), making beautiful models of rational discourse out of the useful substance of all they know.”
“I throw raps that attacks like the Japs at Pearl Harbor”

Source : Song: Living In The World Today
“If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined.”
“I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.”
“The beast exists because it is stronger than the thing that you call evolution. In it is some force of life, a demon, driving it through millions of centuries. It does not surrender so easily to weaklings like you and me.”
“Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.”

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