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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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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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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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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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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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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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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 prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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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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