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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.
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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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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Something doesn't start at its usual time. Something doesn't happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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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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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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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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