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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven the worst book can give us something to think about.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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