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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.
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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Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go blindly by, never coming to mind and never really missed. . . . I can't tell you how much I pass over in silence.
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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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I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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 cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan
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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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