Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIn every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I 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.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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