Quotes by Wislawa Szymborska

Wislawa Szymborska

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

Easier

Funny

Imperfection

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

Looks

Memories

Mines

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

Agreement

Imagination

Reality

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.

Agreement

Reality

Wild Imagination

And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.

Done

Forever

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.

Animal

Different

Trying

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

Teacher

Teaching

Temperature

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

Blink

Moments

Tiny

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were a little ashamed of it. But in our clamorous times it’s much easier to acknowledge your faults, at least if they’re attractively packaged, than to recognize your own merits, since these are hidden deeper and you never quite believe in them yourself.

Believe

Faults

Never Quit

Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.

Cat

Dying

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Able

Absurdity

Agreement

Angel

Animal

Artist

Beautiful

Believe

Blink

Book

Boring

Cat

Certainty

Choices

Complicated

Dark

Decision

Demand

Different

Distance

Doctors

Doe

Dog

Done

Drowning

Dying

Earning

Earning A Living

Easier

Easy

Effort

End Of The World

Ends

Events

Father

Faults

Fighting

First Love

Firsts

Forever

Fun

Funny

Garden

Giving

Good Work

Halfway

Hands

Happens

Hardest

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Quotes by Wislawa Szymborska

Wislawa Szymborska

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

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

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

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.

And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.

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.

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

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

Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.

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