Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASuch certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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 imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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