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Wislawa Szymborska

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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Experience Important Love Myself Romantic
Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Boredom Day Description
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Better Knowledge People
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Live Myself Poet Start
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Memories Myself Search
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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Bone Myself Time
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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Fortune Kind Live Precise Question World
I’m drowning in papers.
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Drown Myself One Liner Paper Poet
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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Feeling Good Morning Oneself
Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Book Mindset Thinking Worst
Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Death Easy Finding Live Love People True
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Land Life Scratch Time
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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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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Believe Different God Goodness Man Strong
Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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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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Cloud Description Enough Myself Quick Start
Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Beautiful Certain Confidence Life Time
I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Book Fashion Myself Old Past Reading Thinking Time
I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Bad Fight Myself Poet Word
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Deep Hide Quite Spiritual

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