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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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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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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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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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