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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
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It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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