Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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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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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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