After every war someone has to tidy up.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASuch certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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