I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANo one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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