Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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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I’m drowning in papers.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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