I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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