What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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