Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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 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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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