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 SZYMBORSKAI prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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