And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKADying – you can’t do that to a cat.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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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’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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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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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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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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