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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Wislawa Szymborska
Age: 88 †
Born: 1923
Born: July 2
Died: 2012
Died: February 1
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Essayist
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Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska
Szymborska
Keep
Work
Good
Twinkling
Galaxy
Tiny

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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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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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I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.
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I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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