I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGenerally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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Animals 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.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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