Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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