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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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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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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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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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I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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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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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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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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