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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKATheir faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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