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’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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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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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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