Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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 cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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