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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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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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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.
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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I'm drowning in papers.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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