Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASomewhere out there the world must have an end.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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