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All Quotes by author - Wislawa Szymborska
" After every war someone has to tidy up. "
War
Tidy
Up
" All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses. "
Imperfection
Small
Up
" All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look. "
Memory
While
Mine
" All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. "
Over
Reality
Best
" Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. "
Knowledge
Questions
Life
" At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind. "
Good
Beginning
Creative
" 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. "
Think
World
I Am
" Even the worst book can give us something to think about. "
Us
Think
Something
" Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through. "
Always
Beginning
Open
" Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. 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. "
Respect
Work
I Am
" Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything. "
You
Remember
Life
" Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me. "
Dream
Comparison
Me
" I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet. "
Peace
Quiet
Writer
" I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. "
Over
Poetry
Point
" I don't believe I have a mission. Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal. "
World
Need
Mission
" 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. "
You
Sympathy
Wisdom
" I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here. "
Here
Get
Top
" I'm drowning in papers. "
Papers
Drowning
" I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words. "
Words
Against
Bad
" In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed. "
Element
Reversed
Just
" In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world. "
Day
World
Poetry
" Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice. "
Really
Made
Choice
" I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit. "
Sit
Slide
Tip
" I started earning a living as a poet rather early on. "
Early
Earning
Living
" It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself. "
Someone
Easy
Yourself
" 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. "
People
Like
Live
" I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world. "
Know
World
Responsible
" Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy. "
Good
Work
Only
" 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. "
Love
Live
True Love
" Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand. "
Sand
Lasts
Few
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