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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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Well, one is inspired by the whole of life, one's own and somebody else's. You know how sometimes you hear great music, and music is completely untranslatable into words, into any words. A certain tension that is born when one listens to music could aid you in expressing something absolutely different.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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I'm drowning in papers.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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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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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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