Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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