Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASomewhere out there the world must have an end.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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 started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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