Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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