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.
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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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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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 drowning in papers.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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