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I'm drowning in papers.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Wislawa Szymborska
Age: 88 †
Born: 1923
Born: July 2
Died: 2012
Died: February 1
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Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska
Szymborska
Drowning
Papers
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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 usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go blindly by, never coming to mind and never really missed. . . . I can't tell you how much I pass over in silence.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.
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