Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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