They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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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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