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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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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When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter poets who are different than I am. The ones who have their own distinct poetics provide me with the greatest experiences.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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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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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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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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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
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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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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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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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