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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.
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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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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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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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Today when two people decide upon a thoughtless and precipitate abbreviation of the physical space between them, they think, at least at that moment, that they're mutually attracted and drawn together by an overwhelming force.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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