It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAPoetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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