Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
Wislawa SzymborskaNo one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning โthree cheers for the ants.
Wislawa SzymborskaI 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 SzymborskaNo one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
Wislawa SzymborskaA Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it's not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes. An extraordinary chance to remember for a moment a conversation held with the lamp switched off; and if only once to stumble upon a stone, end up soaked in one downpour or another, mislay your keys in the grass; and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes; and to keep on not knowing something important.
Wislawa Szymborska