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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.

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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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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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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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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