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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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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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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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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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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'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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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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I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.
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I'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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