They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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