Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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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’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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