We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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 working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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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 the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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