I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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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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