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.
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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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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I’m drowning in papers.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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 cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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 fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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