And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThey say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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’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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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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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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.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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