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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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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Something doesn't start at its usual time. Something doesn't happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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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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 started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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