Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASomewhere out there the world must have an end.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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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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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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