I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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