They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIt’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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