Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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