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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
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 prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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I'm drowning in papers.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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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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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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