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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.
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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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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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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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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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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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I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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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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