Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWe’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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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 prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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