Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAt 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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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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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.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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