Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAPoets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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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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