Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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 hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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