No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAPoets 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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