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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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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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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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