All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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