<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=124993" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Possibilities</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I prefer movies.<br>I prefer cats.<br>I prefer the oaks along the Warta.<br>I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky.<br>I prefer myself liking people<br>to myself loving mankind.<br>I prefer keeping a needle and thread on hand, just in case.<br>I prefer the color green.<br>I prefer not to maintain<br>that reason is to blame for everything.<br>I prefer exceptions.<br>I prefer to leave early.<br>I prefer talking to doctors about something else.<br>I prefer the old fine-lined illustrations.<br>I prefer the absurdity of writing poems<br>to the absurdity of not writing poems.<br>I prefer, where love's concerned, nonspecific anniversaries<br>that can be celebrated every day.<br>I prefer moralists<br>who promise me nothing.<br>I prefer cunning kindness to the over-trustful kind.<br>I prefer the earth in civvies.<br>I prefer conquered to conquering countries.<br>I prefer having some reservations.<br>I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.<br>I prefer Grimms' fairy tales to the newspapers' front pages.<br>I prefer leaves without flowers to flowers without leaves.<br>I prefer dogs with uncropped tails.<br>I prefer light eyes, since mine are dark.<br>I prefer desk drawers.<br>I prefer many things that I haven't mentioned here<br>to many things I've also left unsaid.<br>I prefer zeroes on the loose<br>to those lined up behind a cipher.<br>I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars.<br>I prefer to knock on wood.<br>I prefer not to ask how much longer and when.<br>I prefer keeping in mind even the possibility<br>that existence has its own reason for being.</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=124993" data-title="Possibilities de Wislawa Szymborska" data-description="I prefer movies./I prefer cats./I prefer the oaks along the Warta./I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky./I prefer myself liking people/to myself loving mankind./I prefer keeping a needle and thread on hand, just in case./I prefer the color green./I pre..."></div> </div> </div>

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