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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.
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
Szymborska
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.
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Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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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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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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