What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhat does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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