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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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