Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAll the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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 one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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