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How light the raindrop's contents are;
how gently the world touches me.

From View With a Grain of Sand — Wislawa Szymborska

After every war someone has to tidy up. — Wislawa Szymborska

Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still — Wislawa Szymborska

Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan — Wislawa Szymborska

Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice. — Wislawa Szymborska

They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience. — Wislawa Szymborska

Every beginning, after all, is nothing but a sequel, and the book of events is always open in the middle. — Wislawa Szymborska

How should we live? someone asked me in a letter.
I had meant to ask him
the same question.

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The track's all yours. We won't get in your way: by then we will have set off chasing ourselves rather than you. — Wislawa Szymborska

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me. — Wislawa Szymborska

Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke. — Wislawa Szymborska

What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own? — Wislawa Szymborska

No one feels good at four in the morning.
If ants feel good at four in the morning
- three cheers for the ants. — Wislawa Szymborska

In these lands you're a name to avoid, you're bound for defeat, you're a sign pointing out those who must be destroyed. At — Wislawa Szymborska

Dying - you can't do that to a cat. — Wislawa Szymborska

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

Even if you bar my way,
even if you stare me in the face,
I'll pass you by on the chasm's edge, finer than a hair. — Wislawa Szymborska

Life on Earth is quite a bargain. Dreams, for one, don't charge admission. Illusions are costly only when lost. — Wislawa Szymborska

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems. — Wislawa Szymborska

A thousand and one is still only a thousand. That one seems never to have existed: a — Wislawa Szymborska

They'll reenter their lives' cages, where love's tiger sometimes rages, but the beast's too tame to bite. We'll — Wislawa Szymborska

Memories come to mind like excavated statues
that have misplaced their heads. — Wislawa Szymborska

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

I'm drowning in papers. — Wislawa Szymborska

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

within the four walls of avalanches, I call out to Yeti.
Stomping my feet for warmth
on the snow
the snow eternal. — Wislawa Szymborska

Woods disguised as woods alive without end, and above them birds in flight play birds in flight. — Wislawa Szymborska

Funny little thing. How could she know that even despair can work for you if you're lucky enough to outlive it. I'd — Wislawa Szymborska

Every menu is an obituary. — Wislawa Szymborska

There's simply too much fuss about myself. — Wislawa Szymborska

God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men. — Wislawa Szymborska

Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person. — Wislawa Szymborska

It turns out I was right.
But nothing has come of it. — Wislawa Szymborska

I'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else. — Wislawa Szymborska

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. — Wislawa Szymborska

My apologies to past loves for treating the latest as the first. — Wislawa Szymborska

The joy of writing.
The power of preserving.
Revenge of a mortal hand. — Wislawa Szymborska

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

Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light. — Wislawa Szymborska

They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway. — Wislawa Szymborska

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

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

Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two. — Wislawa Szymborska

When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. — Wislawa Szymborska

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on. — Wislawa Szymborska

'There's nothing new under the sun': that's what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun. — Wislawa Szymborska

Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands. — Wislawa Szymborska

But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet. — Wislawa Szymborska

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through. — Wislawa Szymborska

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. — Wislawa Szymborska

Even a passing moment has its fertile past. — Wislawa Szymborska

I let myself be invented, modeled on my own reflection in his eyes. I dance, dance, dance in the stir of sudden wings. The — Wislawa Szymborska

It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse. — Wislawa Szymborska

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

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand. — Wislawa Szymborska

We, too, can divide ourselves, it's true. / But only into flesh and a broken whisper. / Into flesh and poetry. — Wislawa Szymborska

Memory at last has what I sought. — Wislawa Szymborska

But 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. — Wislawa Szymborska

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects. — Wislawa Szymborska

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words. — Wislawa Szymborska

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed. — Wislawa Szymborska

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

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

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. — Wislawa Szymborska

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

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet. — Wislawa Szymborska

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here. — Wislawa Szymborska

Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens? — Wislawa Szymborska

I am my own obstacle. — Wislawa Szymborska

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. — Wislawa Szymborska

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

I am who I am.
A coincidence no less unthinkable
than any other. — Wislawa Szymborska

We live longer
but less precisely
and in shorter sentences. — Wislawa Szymborska

in painted quiet and concentration — Wislawa Szymborska

No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses. — Wislawa Szymborska

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

I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones. — Wislawa Szymborska

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

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses. — Wislawa Szymborska

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. — Wislawa Szymborska

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy. — Wislawa Szymborska

Somewhere out there the world must have an end. — Wislawa Szymborska

We know ourselves only as far as we've been tested. — Wislawa Szymborska

A stone / which in its own archai, simpleminded way / sees life as a chain of failed attempts. — Wislawa Szymborska

And whatever I do will become forever what I've done. — Wislawa Szymborska

I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible. — Wislawa Szymborska

Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink! — Wislawa Szymborska