All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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 cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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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 cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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