"I have sympathy for young people, for their……" — Wislawa Szymborska
"I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom."
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63 Quotes by Wislawa Szymborska
Wislawa Szymborska has 63 quotes on this site.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the…
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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There's simply too much fuss about myself,
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is…
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not…
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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in…
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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