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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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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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I'm drowning in papers.
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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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 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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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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