Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAnimals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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