Wislawa Szymborska
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“I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life’s wisdom.” -Wislawa Szymborska
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“After every war someone has to tidy up.” -Wislawa Szymborska
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“I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life’s wisdom.” -Wislawa Szymborska
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“Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.” -Wislawa Szymborska
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“I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.” -Wislawa Szymborska
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“Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.” -Wislawa Szymborska
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“I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.” -Wislawa Szymborska
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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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“Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.” -Wislawa Szymborska
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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.” -Wislawa Szymborska
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