I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIt’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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