Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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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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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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