We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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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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