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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!
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 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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In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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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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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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Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go blindly by, never coming to mind and never really missed. . . . I can't tell you how much I pass over in silence.
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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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Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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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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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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