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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhat does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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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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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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