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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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 it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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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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Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle, ... emptiness running down steps toward the garden, nobody's place in line.
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