Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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