It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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