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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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