Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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