Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAll the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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