They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAll imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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I’m drowning in papers.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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