You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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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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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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