Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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