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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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 don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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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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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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I'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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