No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAPoorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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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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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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I’m drowning in papers.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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