And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAnimals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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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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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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