I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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