No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANo one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThere’s simply too much fuss about myself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGenerally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhen I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAnd whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhether 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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhat does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAOut of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAll the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGet to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven the worst book can give us something to think about.
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