I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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