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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.
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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.
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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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 prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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