Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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 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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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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