I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIs a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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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 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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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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