Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAt 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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