Wisława Szymborska quotes

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. (Wisława Szymborska)
Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die. View quote
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end. View quote
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We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself. View quote
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light. View quote
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other. View quote
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway. View quote
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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. View quote
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects. View quote
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy. View quote
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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. (Wisława Szymborska)
I'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else. View quote
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I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. View quote
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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. View quote
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know." View quote
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems. View quote
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There's nothing more debauched than thinking. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. View quote
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile. View quote
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed. (Wisława Szymborska)
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice. View quote
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about. View quote
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on. View quote
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still. View quote
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