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" It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself. "
Wislawa Szymborska
Someone
Easy
Yourself
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" I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet. "
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" Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light. "
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" 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. "
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" Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice. "
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" There's simply too much fuss about myself. "
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" Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me. "
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" I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here. "
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" Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. "
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" I'm drowning in papers. "
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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. "
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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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" Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind. "
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" I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words. "
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Words
Against
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" After every war someone has to tidy up. "
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" In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed. "
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" I started earning a living as a poet rather early on. "
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