I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAll imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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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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