I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGet to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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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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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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