It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThere’s simply too much fuss about myself.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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