After every war someone has to tidy up.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKATheir faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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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 prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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