Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThey say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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