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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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I'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else.
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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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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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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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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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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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