I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI 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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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 cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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