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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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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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