God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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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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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Animals 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.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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