The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAny knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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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.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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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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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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