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View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems QUOTES

View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems QUOTES

1 " Memories come to mind like excavated statues
that have misplaced their heads. "

― Wisława Szymborska , View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

2 " a stone / which in its own archaic, simpleminded way / sees life as a chain of failed attempts. "

― Wisława Szymborska , View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

3 " No carece de encantos un mundo tan terrible, no carece de madrugadas que merecen un despertar. "

― Wisława Szymborska , View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

4 " Po każdej wojnie ktoś musi posprzątać. "

― Wisława Szymborska , View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

5 " ¿Y si todo esto sucede en un laboratorio? ¿Bajo sólo una lámpara de día y miles de millones por la noche? "

― Wisława Szymborska , View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

6 " No he vivido más que tú, sino sólo lo bastante para pensar de lejos. "

― Wisława Szymborska , View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

7 " Así, por obra del azar, soy y miro. Una mariposa blanca aletea en el aire con alas que sólo a ella pertenecen, y una sombra sobrevuela mi mano, la suya, no otra, no de cualquiera. Ante hechos semejantes me abandona la certeza de que lo importante es más importante que lo que no importa. "

― Wisława Szymborska , View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

8 " El cielo está en todas partes, incluso en la oscuridad bajo la piel. Me alimento de cielo, evacuo cielo. Soy una trampa en la trampa, un habitante habitado, un brazo abrazado, una pregunta en respuesta a una pregunta. "

― Wisława Szymborska , View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

9 " Un milagro tan adicional como adicional es todo: lo impensable se puede pensar. "

― Wisława Szymborska , View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

10 " No existe vida que, aun por un instante, no sea inmortal. La muerte siempre llega con ese instante de retraso. En vano golpea con la aldaba en la puerta invisible. Lo ya vivido no se lo puede llevar. "

― Wisława Szymborska , View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

11 " En el tercer planeta del sol la conciencia limpia y tranquila es síntoma primordial de animalidad. "

― Wisława Szymborska , View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

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

― Wisława Szymborska , View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

13 " As far as the eye can see, there's water and hazy horizon.
Into the ark, plans for the distant future,
joy in the difference,
admiration for the better man,
choice not narrowed down to one of two,
outworn scruples,
time to think it over,
and the belief that all this
will still come in handy someday. "

― Wisława Szymborska , View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

14 " The world would rather see hope than just hear
its song. And that's why statesman have to smile.
Their pearly whites mean they're still full of cheer.
The game's complex, the goal's far out of reach,
the outcome's still unclear--once in a while,
we need a friendly, gleaming set of teeth. "

― Wisława Szymborska , View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

15 " Why there's still all this space inside me
I don't know. "

― Wisława Szymborska , View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

16 " I don't reproach the spring
for starting up again.
I can't blame it
for doing what it must
year after year.

I know that my grief
will not stop the green. "

― Wisława Szymborska , View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

17 " My identifying features
are rapture and despair. "

― Wisława Szymborska , View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

18 " Here I am, Cassandra.
And this is my city under ashes.
And these are my prophet's staff and ribbons.
And this is my head full of doubts. "

― Wisława Szymborska , View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

19 " You're still a young man/woman.
It's not too late to learn hw to unwind.
Who said
you have to take it on the chin? "

― Wisława Szymborska , View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

20 " I know how to handle misfortune,
how to take bad news,
I can minimize injustice,
lighten up God's absence,
or pick the widow's veil that suits your face. "

― Wisława Szymborska , View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems