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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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 slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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