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"You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects."
'When I was young I had a moment of believing in Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work but I never pretended it didn't happen to me. "
"Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration but isolation is not good in this respect; iI am not writing poetry about isolation."
"Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand."
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I recently read two poems Tortures, Plato, or Why? and The End and the Beginning reflected that appealed to me . They were written by Polish poet Wisława Szymborska, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996. She was praised for "poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragmants of human reality". Her works were so popular that they have been translated and published in English, German, Italian, Swedish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Romanian and other languages. She has published 16 collections of poetry.
Wislawa was born in Kornick in Western Poland on July 2 1923, the the second daughter of Wincenty Szymborski and Anna Szymborska. She lived in Krakow from 1931. During the war in 1939, she attended underground classes and studied Polish Literature and Sociology at the Jagiellonian University from 1945-48. She was influenced by Czesław Miłosz and her first poem was published in March 1945.
She had to quit her studies in 1948 due to finances. She married and later divorced Adam Wlodeck and had no children. From 1953-1981 she worked as poetry editor and columnist in the Kraków literary weekly "Zycie Literackie". She won the Goethe Prize in 1991, Herder Prize Winner in 1995 and in 1996 she received the Polish PEN Club Prize.
Her jobs included railroad employee (where she evaded getting deported} in 1943, and as a secretary and illustrator for an educational biweekly magazine in 1948. From 1953 she worked as editor and writer.
Her work contains wit, irony, paradox, contradiction and understatement and simplicity to examine domestic, philosophical themes details, using history as a backdrop. Works reflect her change in view points in the transformation of the Polish political and social ideas during her time.
Many of her poems including the ones I read involve war and terrorism and their effects.
In the evocative poem “The End and the Beginning" I mentioned above, the first line
"After every war,
someone has to clean up..."
has a simple yet potent truth. The images are so vital.
Her poem "Tortures" I found moving in its stark reality and can be interpreted in many aspects. She shares a reflection how some things have not changed and she would have clear observations on this issue having lived through a historic time where so much tragedy has occurred. Deeply insightful and vivid.
Some of her poems and works have been made into songs, movies (noteably People on the Bridge) and tributes.
She kept writing right up until her death of lung cancer at age 88 in 2012. She was working on a new book at the time. In 2013, the Wisława Szymborska Award was established in honour of her literary legacy.
An poet well worth reading. 
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eyestar
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52955/the-end-and-the-beginning
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/wislawa_szymborska/poems/11680
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wis%C5%82awa_Szymborska
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/wislawa_szymborska/biography
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