Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhen I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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At 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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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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