Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAOut of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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