You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThey say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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I’m drowning in papers.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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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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