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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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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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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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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 started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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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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