I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEvery beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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 prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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