Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAnd whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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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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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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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 imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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 absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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