When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThere is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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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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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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