Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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