I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAt 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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