Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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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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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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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