Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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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 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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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’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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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