Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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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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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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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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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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’m drowning in papers.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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