Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIt’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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