God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAny knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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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 prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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