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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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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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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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