You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKACarry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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