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" Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy. "
Wislawa Szymborska
Good
Work
Only
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" I started earning a living as a poet rather early on. "
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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. "
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" 'There's nothing new under the sun': that's what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun. "
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" I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet. "
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" Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through. "
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" In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed. "
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" Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. "
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" You know, I'm worried about Szymborska. I wish she would stop smoking. "
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" Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice. "
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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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" 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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" Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? "
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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 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. "
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" All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses. "
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Small
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" This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile. "
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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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" I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words. "
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Against
Bad
" Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light. "
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Hard
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work, but I've never pretended it didn't happen to me. "
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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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" Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand. "
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" Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings. "
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" All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look. "
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