God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANo day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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