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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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More quotes by Wislawa Szymborska
Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.
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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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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.
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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans.
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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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I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
Wislawa Szymborska
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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
Wislawa Szymborska
Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
Wislawa Szymborska
