Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThey say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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