And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANo day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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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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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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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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