I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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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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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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