After every war someone has to tidy up.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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