Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m drowning in papers.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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