I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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