Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAKeep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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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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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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