I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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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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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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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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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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