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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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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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Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go blindly by, never coming to mind and never really missed. . . . I can't tell you how much I pass over in silence.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.
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Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans.
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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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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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