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 SZYMBORSKANo day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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