It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAll imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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