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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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When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter poets who are different than I am. The ones who have their own distinct poetics provide me with the greatest experiences.
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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'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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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'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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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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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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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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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 cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.
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