Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThis terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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