All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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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 cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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