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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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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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I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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