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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.

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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.
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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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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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