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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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When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter poets who are different than I am. The ones who have their own distinct poetics provide me with the greatest experiences.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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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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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
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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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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.
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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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