Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThis terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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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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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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