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Wislawa Szymborska Quotes

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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) After every war someone has to tidy up  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) Somewhere out there the world must have an end  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) Even the worst book can give us something to think about  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) There’s simply too much fuss about myself  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) 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  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) Today when two people decide upon a thoughtless and precipitate abbreviation of the physical space between them, they think, at least at that moment, that they’re mutually attracted and drawn together by an overwhelming force  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) 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  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) 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  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) 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  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) 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!  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone’s existence in this world  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It’s bad with large numbers. It’s still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go blindly by, never coming to mind and never really missed... I can’t tell you how much I pass over in silence  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes) 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  (Wislawa Szymborska Quotes)
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