“When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me.”

— Czeslaw Milosz

"Notes" (1978), trans. Czesław Miłosz and Lillian Vallee
Hymn of the Pearl (1981)

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Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator 1911–2004

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“It amazes me that there's been a fuss over me cursing when there's rappers talking about killing people.”

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Quotes from interviews

“People are born in sorrow and move about the earth in patterns of sorrow without sense and without plan. Why should I take myself so seriously? I am no more important to the Creator than the trees or the vegetation which live with me on His earth. There is no eye to watch over me nor a hand to direct me, and there will be no preferred fate for me at the end, no matter what I am, or what I do with my life.”

William March book The Tallons

The Tallons (1936)

“Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.”

Duke Ellington (1899–1974) American jazz musician, composer and band leader

At age 66, on being passed over for an award (Pulitzer Prize for music) in 1965, as quoted in The Christian Science Monitor (24 December 1986).

“The gods would take him and leave me bereft, and I curse them!”

Lois McMaster Bujold book Paladin of Souls

"I have cursed them for years," said Ista dryly. "Turnabout being fair."
Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 379

“They call me the disappeared
That who when he arrives he is already gone
Flying I come, flying I go
Hastily, hastily to a lost course
When they search for me I am never there
When they find me he is not actually me
The one they have in front
Because I already moved along

They call me the disappeared
Ghost that never is to be found
They call me the ungrateful
But this is not the truth
I carry in my body a pain
That don't let me breathe
I carry in my body a curse
That always brings me to walk on”

Manu Chao (1961) French Spanish singer, guitarist and record producer

Me llaman el desaparecido
Que cuando llega ya se ha ido
Volando vengo, volando voy
Deprisa, deprisa a rumbo perdido
Cuando me buscan nunca estoy
Cuando me encuentran yo no soy
El que está enfrente porque ya
Me fui corriendo más allá

Me dicen el desaparecido
Fantasma que nunca está
Me dicen el desagradecido
Pero esa no es la verdad
Yo llevo en el cuerpo un dolor
Que no me deja respirar
Llevo en el cuerpo una condena
Que siempre me echa a caminar
Desaparecido https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qew9cYR3t0g.
Clandestino (1998)