I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThere is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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 like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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 imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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