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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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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter poets who are different than I am. The ones who have their own distinct poetics provide me with the greatest experiences.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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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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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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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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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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