They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANo one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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