This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAYou can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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