Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWe’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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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