Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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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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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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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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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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