Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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 like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter poets who are different than I am. The ones who have their own distinct poetics provide me with the greatest experiences.
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I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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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.
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still