I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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