When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music … - Wislawa Szymborska

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I speak for the colored women of the South, because it is there that the millions of blacks in this country have watered the soil with blood and tears, and it is there too that the colored woman of America has made her characteristic history and there her destiny is evolving.

Wislawa Szymborska

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 prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.

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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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Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know. '

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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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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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