Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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