I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m drowning in papers.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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’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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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