Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven the worst book can give us something to think about.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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We’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.
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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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