I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASuch certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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