They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m drowning in papers.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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