Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I 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.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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