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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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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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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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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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