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Wislawa Szymborska Quotes


Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

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

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.

Somewhere out there the world must have an end.

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.