Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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