And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThey say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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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’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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