No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEvery beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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