At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAll is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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 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.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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