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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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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle, ... emptiness running down steps toward the garden, nobody's place in line.
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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 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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I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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 started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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 like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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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.
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