Quote of the day
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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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