It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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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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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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