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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.
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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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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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.
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