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Quotes from Poems New and Collected — Wisława Szymborska

1923–2012 Poland

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Show me your little poem
and I'll tell you why it wasn't written
any earlier or later than it was.Oh no, you've got me wrong.
Keep your funny piece of paper
with its scribbles.
All I need for my ends
is your layer of dirt
and the long gone
smell of burning.

Poems New and Collected (1998)

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