It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m drowning in papers.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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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 fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Poets 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.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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