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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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More quotes by Wislawa Szymborska
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'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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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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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
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