They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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My 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.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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