Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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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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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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