Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhether 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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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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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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