Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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