Wislawa Szymborska Quotes

Polish - Poet | July 2, 1923 - February 1, 2012

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

Wislawa Szymborska

WorldUpMakeWorthwhileWaking Up

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

Wislawa Szymborska

BestImaginationRealityOverCommon

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

Wislawa Szymborska

YourselfSomeoneEasyYouUnderstand

When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work, but I've never pretended it didn't happen to me.

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WorkMomentMeCommunismWorld

You know, I'm worried about Szymborska. I wish she would stop smoking.

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SmokingWishYouStopKnowShe

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

Wislawa Szymborska

NatureTimeMyselfI AmWorldThink

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

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LightWordsSpeechTryHardSeem

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

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PlaceGroupInspirationMonopolyMay

After every war someone has to tidy up.

Wislawa Szymborska

WarSomeoneTidyUpEveryAfter

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

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MemoryLookNothingMineOnlyWhile

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

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LifeKnowledgeQuestionsNewOut

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

Wislawa Szymborska

BookThinkWorstSomethingUsGive

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