Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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 like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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