Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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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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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’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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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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 a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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