Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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