Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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 cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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