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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.
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 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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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