They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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 don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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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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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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