Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKACarry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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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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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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