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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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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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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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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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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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'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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