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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.
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Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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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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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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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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