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

Wislawa Szymborska

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

Wislawa Szymborska

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

Wislawa Szymborska

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

Wislawa Szymborska

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

Wislawa Szymborska

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

Wislawa Szymborska

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

Wislawa Szymborska

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

Wislawa Szymborska

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.

Wislawa Szymborska

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.

Wislawa Szymborska

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Wislawa Szymborska

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.

Wislawa Szymborska

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

Wislawa Szymborska

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Wislawa Szymborska

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

Wislawa Szymborska