Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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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 like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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