I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAPoetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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