Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAPoetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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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 cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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