Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAExistentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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 prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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