Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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