No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAMemory at last has what I sought.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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