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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.

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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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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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I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Today when two people decide upon a thoughtless and precipitate abbreviation of the physical space between them, they think, at least at that moment, that they're mutually attracted and drawn together by an overwhelming force.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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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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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Well, one is inspired by the whole of life, one's own and somebody else's. You know how sometimes you hear great music, and music is completely untranslatable into words, into any words. A certain tension that is born when one listens to music could aid you in expressing something absolutely different.
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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 imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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