Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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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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