All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAnd whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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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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