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I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.
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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I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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Today when two people decide upon a thoughtless and precipitate abbreviation of the physical space between them, they think, at least at that moment, that they're mutually attracted and drawn together by an overwhelming force.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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