I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIn every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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 imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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