Wislawa Szymborska on bone
Wislawa Szymborska73 quotes“I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.”
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska I’m drowning in papers.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska 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 SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska 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.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska
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Thoughts on a tapestry. Colour or black and white. A brush, a pen, A flash of light. Ideas flowing soon, about to take flight.
Gerard GleesonGerard Gleeson Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry I am addicted to your madness drunk on your toxic love. Infect me with your poison, lets make storms rage above.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney The more you fail, recover, and improve, the better you are as a person.
Laura CleggLaura Clegg
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More on bone
In a shared fish, there are no bones.
DemocritusDemocritus Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.
Yoko OnoYoko Ono Baseball players need strength but also the ability to make fast-paced, explosive movements, so their training is all about strengthening the tendons around the bone and the joint so you don’t tear the muscles from the bones.
Chadwick BosemanChadwick Boseman Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.
Robert FrostRobert Frost A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.
Bruce LeeBruce Lee Sucking the marrow out of life doesn’t mean choking on the bone.
Robin WilliamsRobin Williams The only decent bone in her body was mine.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway
