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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 like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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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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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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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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