Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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