They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThe joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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 prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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