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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. "

Wislawa Szymborska

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" In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed. "

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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 cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. "

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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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" I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet. "

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" You know, I'm worried about Szymborska. I wish she would stop smoking. "

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" I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words. "

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