Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEvery beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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 started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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 cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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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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