They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAOut of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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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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