I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASecret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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