The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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