Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASuch certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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