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.
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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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