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

Wislawa Szymborska

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

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

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

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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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" All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look. "

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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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" 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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