All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThere is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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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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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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