Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGet to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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