In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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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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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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 am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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