Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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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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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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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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