Polish - Poet | July 2, 1923 - February 1, 2012
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
Wislawa Szymborska
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice.
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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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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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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 fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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