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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
Critic
Essayist
Literary Critic
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Poet
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Kornik
Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska
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Sigh
Littles
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Rejections
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Indescribable
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Numerous

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