I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAll imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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