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Wislawa 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.


— Wislawa Szymborska


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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.


— Wislawa Szymborska


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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.


— Wislawa Szymborska


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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.


— Wislawa Szymborska


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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.


— Wislawa Szymborska


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I don't believe I have a mission. Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal.


— Wislawa Szymborska


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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 life's wisdom.


— Wislawa Szymborska


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I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.


— Wislawa Szymborska


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


— Wislawa Szymborska


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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


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