Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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 steps on political ground.
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