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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 prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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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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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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