Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAOut of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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