What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGod was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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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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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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