Quote of the day
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future
Wisława Szymborska
Born: July 2, 1923
Died: February 1, 2012 (aged 88)
Bio: Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent, which has since become part of Kórnik, she later resided in Kraków until the end of her life.
Known for:
- Poems, new and collected, 1957-1997 (1998)
- View with a Grain of Sand (1996)
- Non-required Reading (1992)
- Nothing Twice: Selected Poems (1997)
- Miracle Fair (2001)
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