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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.


Wislawa Szymborska

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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...
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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 After every war someone has to tidy up.
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...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankin...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with.
Scruples are alien to the black panther.
Pi...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA The Three Oddest Words

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...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA Dojela sem tudi, da je ljubezen do človeštva zelo nevarno čustvo, ker najpogosteje vodi v nasilno...
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