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Wislawa Szymborska
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"After every war someone has to tidy up."
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Wislawa Szymborska
Topic(s):
War
"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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Wislawa Szymborska
Topic(s):
Sympathy
"I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it."
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Wislawa Szymborska
Topic(s):
Relationship
"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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Wislawa Szymborska
Topic(s):
Poetry
"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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Wislawa Szymborska
Topic(s):
Poetry
"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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Wislawa Szymborska
Topic(s):
Poetry
"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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Wislawa Szymborska
Topic(s):
Poetry
"Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry."
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Wislawa Szymborska
Topic(s):
Poetry
"I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again."
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Wislawa Szymborska
Topic(s):
Poetry
"I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet."
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Wislawa Szymborska
Topic(s):
Peace
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