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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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I’m drowning in papers.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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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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