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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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More quotes by Wislawa Szymborska
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.
Wislawa Szymborska
Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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Something doesn't start at its usual time. Something doesn't happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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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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Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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 prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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