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" Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal. "

Wislawa Szymborska

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" I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here. "

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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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" 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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