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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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I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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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 prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.
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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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History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle, ... emptiness running down steps toward the garden, nobody's place in line.
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We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
Wislawa Szymborska
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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