Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m drowning in papers.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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