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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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