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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

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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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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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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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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It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.
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I'm drowning in papers.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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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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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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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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