And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKALet the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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 cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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