Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGenerally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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