Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAPoorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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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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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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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 working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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