All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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