After every war someone has to tidy up.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKADying – you can’t do that to a cat.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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