Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAnd whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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 cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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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 like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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