No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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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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