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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.
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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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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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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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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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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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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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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I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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