Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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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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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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