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How light the raindrop's contents are;how gently the world touches me.
From View With a Grain of Sand — Wislawa Szymborska
After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice.
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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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Every beginning, after all, is nothing but a sequel, and the book of events is always open in the middle.
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How should we live? someone asked me in a letter.I had meant to ask him
the same question.
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The track's all yours. We won't get in your way: by then we will have set off chasing ourselves rather than you.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.
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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 one feels good at four in the morning.If ants feel good at four in the morning
- three cheers for the ants. — Wislawa Szymborska
In these lands you're a name to avoid, you're bound for defeat, you're a sign pointing out those who must be destroyed. At
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Even if you bar my way,even if you stare me in the face,
I'll pass you by on the chasm's edge, finer than a hair. — Wislawa Szymborska
Life on Earth is quite a bargain. Dreams, for one, don't charge admission. Illusions are costly only when lost.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poemsto the absurdity of not writing poems. — Wislawa Szymborska
A thousand and one is still only a thousand. That one seems never to have existed: a
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They'll reenter their lives' cages, where love's tiger sometimes rages, but the beast's too tame to bite. We'll
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Memories come to mind like excavated statuesthat have misplaced their heads. — Wislawa Szymborska
You know, I'm worried about Szymborska. I wish she would stop smoking.
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I'm drowning in papers.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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within the four walls of avalanches, I call out to Yeti.Stomping my feet for warmth
on the snow
the snow eternal. — Wislawa Szymborska
Woods disguised as woods alive without end, and above them birds in flight play birds in flight.
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Funny little thing. How could she know that even despair can work for you if you're lucky enough to outlive it. I'd
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Every menu is an obituary.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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It turns out I was right. But nothing has come of it. — Wislawa Szymborska
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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Let the people who never find true lovekeep saying that there's no such thing.
Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die. — Wislawa Szymborska
My apologies to past loves for treating the latest as the first.
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The joy of writing.The power of preserving.
Revenge of a mortal hand. — Wislawa Szymborska
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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'There's nothing new under the sun': that's what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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Even a passing moment has its fertile past.
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I let myself be invented, modeled on my own reflection in his eyes. I dance, dance, dance in the stir of sudden wings. The
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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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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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We, too, can divide ourselves, it's true. / But only into flesh and a broken whisper. / Into flesh and poetry.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
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Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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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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I am my own obstacle.
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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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I am who I am.A coincidence no less unthinkable
than any other. — Wislawa Szymborska
We live longerbut less precisely
and in shorter sentences. — Wislawa Szymborska
in painted quiet and concentration
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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We know ourselves only as far as we've been tested.
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A stone / which in its own archai, simpleminded way / sees life as a chain of failed attempts.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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