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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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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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