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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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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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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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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.
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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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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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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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