Polish - Poet | July 2, 1923 - February 1, 2012
I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.
Wislawa Szymborska
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
LifeSandLastsFew
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.
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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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I'm drowning in papers.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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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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