There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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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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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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