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After every war someone has to tidy up.


Wislawa Szymborska

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WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single sto...
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WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA -A Word On Statistics-


Out of every hundred people,

those who always kn...
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BERNHARD LANGER My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.
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RICH FORSLUND Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
JEAN ANOUILH Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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DAV PILKEY I'd like to tidy up the entire planet. I would go anywhere if there were something that needs ti...
MARIE KONDO War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
WALTER MOSLEY You see turn one. You want to have a tidy exit on that because it sets you up for the next turn.
LEIGHTON REESE War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed
WILLIAM MCKINLEY The war in my country has destroyed every one I have ever loved.
ENISA MEDJEDOVIC Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck...
GUY DE MAUPASSANT All their lovers' talk began with the phrase "After the war".
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are p...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the sa...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA There's simply too much fuss about myself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to s...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and ...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of ea...
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WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the im...
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WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world t...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single sto...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temp...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.

Wh...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA Bez tej miłości można żyć,
mieć serce suche jak orzeszek,
malutki los naparstkiem pi...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA Czytanie książek to najpiękniejsza zabawa, jaką sobie ludzkość wymyśliła.
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA Dividing earth and sky
is not the right way
to think about this wholeness.
It only al...
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WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with.
Scruples are alien to the black panther.
Pi...
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When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already ...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA Possibilities

I prefer movies.
I prefer cats.
I prefer the oaks along the Warta...
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WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems.
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA ... in daily speech, where we don't stop to consider every word, we all use phrases like "the ordina...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA Czemu ty się, zła godzino,
z niepotrzebnym mieszasz lękiem?
Jesteś - a więc musisz mi...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA They're both convinced
that a sudden passion joined them.
Such certainty is beautiful,
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA -A Word On Statistics-


Out of every hundred people,

those who always kn...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA Kucam na vrata kamena.
-To sam ja, pusti me.
Hoću da uđem u tvoju unutrašnjost,
da...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA