I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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 prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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