It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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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 drowning in papers.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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