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Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
Page 2 of 2Wislawa Szymborska
July 2, 1923 -
Nationality: Polish
Category: Poet
|  Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light. | | Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy. | | Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. | | 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. | | In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed. | | Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me. | | 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. | | 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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