Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKATheir faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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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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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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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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