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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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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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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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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.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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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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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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I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.
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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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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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Today when two people decide upon a thoughtless and precipitate abbreviation of the physical space between them, they think, at least at that moment, that they're mutually attracted and drawn together by an overwhelming force.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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