They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m drowning in papers.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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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 prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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