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.
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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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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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