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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

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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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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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'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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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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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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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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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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