Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGod was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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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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