Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGet to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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