Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAPoorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m drowning in papers.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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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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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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When 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.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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