I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGod was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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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 started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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