Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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 cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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