After every war someone has to tidy up.
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 prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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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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