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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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
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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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It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
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I'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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Well, one is inspired by the whole of life, one's own and somebody else's. You know how sometimes you hear great music, and music is completely untranslatable into words, into any words. A certain tension that is born when one listens to music could aid you in expressing something absolutely different.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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