Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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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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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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