Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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