I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThere’s simply too much fuss about myself.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Animals 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.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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