And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANo one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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