It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAPoets 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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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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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 cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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