No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhen it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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