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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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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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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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I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.
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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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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle, ... emptiness running down steps toward the garden, nobody's place in line.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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I'm drowning in papers.
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Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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