After every war someone has to tidy up.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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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 started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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