I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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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’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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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