Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAll imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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I’m drowning in papers.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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