Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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