All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThey say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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 am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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