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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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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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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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Something doesn't start at its usual time. Something doesn't happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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 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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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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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.
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