And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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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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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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