Quotes about Wislawa Szymborska

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

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Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain...

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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its...

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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I...

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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

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After every war someone has to tidy up.

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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a...

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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up...

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Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard...

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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.

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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if...

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