I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKACarry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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