There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely

- Wislawa Szymborska

Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... T…

- Wislawa Szymborska

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

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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.

- Wislawa Szymborska

Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.

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

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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still

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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political st…

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Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspira…

- Wislawa Szymborska