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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAll imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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