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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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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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I'm drowning in papers.
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Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans.
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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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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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