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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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