It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAnimals 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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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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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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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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