Quotes about Wislawa Szymborska

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here...

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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing....

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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling...

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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice.

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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

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I'm drowning in papers.

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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

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I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of...

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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

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