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Your real self - the I am I - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.
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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