Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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 started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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