Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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