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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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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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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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Today when two people decide upon a thoughtless and precipitate abbreviation of the physical space between them, they think, at least at that moment, that they're mutually attracted and drawn together by an overwhelming force.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.
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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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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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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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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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