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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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