I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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