No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIt’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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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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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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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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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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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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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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