They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASomewhere out there the world must have an end.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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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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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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