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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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