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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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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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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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I'm drowning in papers.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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