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 SZYMBORSKAThey say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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