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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment; cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.
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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