It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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 the temperature required for sustaining life.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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