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!
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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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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