I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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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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