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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m drowning in papers.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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 hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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