I’m drowning in papers.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAfter every war someone has to tidy up.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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