Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThey say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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