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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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Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go blindly by, never coming to mind and never really missed. . . . I can't tell you how much I pass over in silence.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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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'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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