Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASecret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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