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Wislawa Szymborska

Polish Poet

Born: Jul 2, 1923

Died: Feb 1, 2012

About Life Nothing Work World You

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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. Wislawa Szymborska

Love True Love Faith Saying People Will Live Easier Find Never True Make Die Them Who Keep Thing

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile. Wislawa Szymborska

World Worthwhile Charms Mornings Devoid Make Terrifying Up Waking Waking Up

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here. Wislawa Szymborska

Lost Top Like Mountain Get Being Near Here

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy. Wislawa Szymborska

Work Good Good Work Only Up Tiny While Galaxy Keep Twinkling

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand. Wislawa Szymborska

Life Few Lasts Sand

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed. Wislawa Szymborska

Comedy Every Preserved Reversed Tragedy Just Element

After every war someone has to tidy up. Wislawa Szymborska

War Every Someone Tidy Up After

'There's nothing new under the sun': that's what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun. Wislawa Szymborska

You Yourself Nothing Sun Born New Wrote Were Nothing New

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. Wislawa Szymborska

Spirit Poetic Poetry Talent Operate Polish Vacuum

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on. Wislawa Szymborska

Poet Living Earning Rather Early Started

I'm drowning in papers. Wislawa Szymborska

Papers Drowning

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words. Wislawa Szymborska

Words Poet Fighting Too Bad Prone Against Who Many Using

There's simply too much fuss about myself. Wislawa Szymborska

Myself Too Much Too Fuss About Simply Much

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. Wislawa Szymborska

When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work, but I've never pretended it didn't happen to me. Wislawa Szymborska

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? Wislawa Szymborska

Nothing Down Seven Later Once Out Kind Lies Table Minutes Cross Someone Only Could Writes Hour Another Motionless Passes Lines Ceiling Wall Person Happens Which While Them Then Stand Who Staring Thing Watch Sofa

You know, I'm worried about Szymborska. I wish she would stop smoking. Wislawa Szymborska

You Smoking Wish Worried Would About Know She Stop

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. Wislawa Szymborska

Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work! Wislawa Szymborska

Work Love Sometimes Single Took Guess Spend Several Would Able Poem Poems Weeks Write Readers Quickly Which Much Really

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