I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAnimals 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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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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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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