And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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