Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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