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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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More quotes by Wislawa Szymborska
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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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I'm drowning in papers.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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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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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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