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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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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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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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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 the worst book can give us something to think about.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Today when two people decide upon a thoughtless and precipitate abbreviation of the physical space between them, they think, at least at that moment, that they're mutually attracted and drawn together by an overwhelming force.
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