No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAMy 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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