July 2, 1923

Wisława Szymborska (July 2, 1923 to February 1, 2012) was a Polish writer. She was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1996. In an inept review The New York TImes says: "Szymborska’s skepticism, her merry, mischievous irreverence and her thirst for the surprise of fresh perception make her the enemy of all tyrannical certainties." However Szymborska lived through Nazi rule, and then communism, -- and while I have no idea what that might have meant to a writer -- I think we can rule out by means of an attitude of "merry irreverence."

She wrote (in “In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself”) :

“The buzzard never says it is to blame.  

The panther wouldn’t know what scruples mean," 

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My guess is she refers here to literary critics, among others.  That would explain the brevity of her Nobel acceptance speech: Szymborska understood the limits of speech.