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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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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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History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle, ... emptiness running down steps toward the garden, nobody's place in line.
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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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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I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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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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