It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThe joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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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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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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