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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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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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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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 am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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