Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhen 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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