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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.
Wislawa Szymborska
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Wislawa Szymborska
Age: 88 †
Born: 1923
Born: July 2
Died: 2012
Died: February 1
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Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.
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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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I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.
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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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I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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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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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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