I’m drowning in papers.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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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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