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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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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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But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans.
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I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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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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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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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
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