Quote by Wislawa Szymborska
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an ag

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. – Wislawa Szymborska

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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. Thats what writing is all about. – Wislawa Szymborska

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In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyones existence in this world. – Wislawa Szymborska

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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction. – Marquis de Sade

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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. – George Bernard Shaw

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I didnt have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didnt have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didnt know where to put it. – Michael Lindsay-Hogg

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For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. – Jean Dubuffet

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It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed. – Elie Wiesel

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I dont have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing. – Bill Cosby

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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. – Cesare Pavese

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