<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=124976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Children of Our Age</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are children of our age,<br>it's a political age.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All day long, all through the night,<br>all affairs--yours, ours, theirs--<br>are political affairs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whether you like it or not,<br>your genes have a political past,<br>your skin, a political cast,<br>your eyes, a political slant.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whatever you say reverberates,<br>whatever you don't say speaks for itself.<br>So either way you're talking politics.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even when you take to the woods,<br>you're taking political steps<br>on political grounds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Apolitical poems are also political,<br>and above us shines a moon<br>no longer purely lunar.<br>To be or not to be, that is the question.<br>And though it troubles the digestion<br>it's a question, as always, of politics.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To acquire a political meaning<br>you don't even have to be human.<br>Raw material will do,<br>or protein feed, or crude oil,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or a conference table whose shape<br>was quarreled over for months;<br>Should we arbitrate life and death<br>at a round table or a square one?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Meanwhile, people perished,<br>animals died,<br>houses burned,<br>and the fields ran wild<br>just as in times immemorial<br>and less political.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wislawa+Szymborska">Wislawa Szymborska</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=124976" data-title="Children of Our Age de Wislawa Szymborska" data-description="We are children of our age,/it's a political age./All day long, all through the night,/all affairs--yours, ours, theirs--/are political affairs./Whether you like it or not,/your genes have a political past,/your skin, a political cast,/your eyes, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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