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" This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile. "

Wislawa Szymborska

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" I started earning a living as a poet rather early on. "

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" Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy. "

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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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" 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. "

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" Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand. "

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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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" You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects. "

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

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

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

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" Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work! "

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" Somewhere out there the world must have an end. "

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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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" There's simply too much fuss about myself. "

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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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" 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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" Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice. "

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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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" Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me. "

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" All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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