It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIn every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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