I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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 imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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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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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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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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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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