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.
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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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