I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThe joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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