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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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I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter poets who are different than I am. The ones who have their own distinct poetics provide me with the greatest experiences.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.
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I'm drowning in papers.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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