There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAExistentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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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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