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Wislawa Szymborska Quotes

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

Wislawa Szymborska

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: polish
Birth: July 2, 1923 - February 1, 2012

Topics

Walls Poetry Writing Born Ring Will

I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons downtown. I wanted people to find something nice and intriguing to puzzle over. Then I'd go back to see if the things were still there, or if anyone would notice.

Jenny Holzer

Beach People Puzzle Long Back Find

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.

Max Muller

Morning Light Simple Mountains Me

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.

Robert Kiyosaki

Environment Person Never Years Going

I'm just happy to have my legs back, cause at one point in time, I wasn't even walking.

Stefon Diggs

Time Happy Walking Back Legs Point

The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on high display in intimate relations - inside the family.

Siri Hustvedt

Family History Literature Emotions

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Rodney Atkins

Better You Find Understand More Off

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

Joshua Bell

Hope Chance Play Will Violin Always

I love music, and I loved dance music immediately. So I bought some equipment and started making my own. When I started this, I didn't say, 'okay I'm going to do this step and then this step' to become popular. I just created music that I loved.

Armin van Buuren

Love Music Dance Step Loved Become

For me, it is sad when I listen to this, that one player must be more selfish to reach the top level.

Antonio Conte

Sad Me Selfish Reach Listen Top

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Sydney J. Harris

Best Practice Sometimes Way Idea

You see I'm semi-retired now and don't work all the time, only most of it!

Norman Wisdom

Work Time You Now See Only

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

Ridley Scott

Time Me Better Movies Write Two