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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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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 just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter poets who are different than I am. The ones who have their own distinct poetics provide me with the greatest experiences.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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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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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go blindly by, never coming to mind and never really missed. . . . I can't tell you how much I pass over in silence.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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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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