They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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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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