What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’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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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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