Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThe joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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