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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

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Wislawa Szymborska
Age: 88 †
Born: 1923
Born: July 2
Died: 2012
Died: February 1
Critic
Essayist
Literary Critic
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Kornik
Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska
Szymborska
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Cosmos
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
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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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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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