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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThere is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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 working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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