They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIs a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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 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 prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Let 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.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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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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