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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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Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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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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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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