“I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.”
— Wislawa Szymborska
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Category: peace
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After every war someone has to tidy
“After every war someone has to tidy up.”
— Wislawa Szymborska
Author: Wislawa Szymborska
Category: war
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Each of us has a very rich
“Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.”
— Wislawa Szymborska
Author: Wislawa Szymborska
Category: nature
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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who
“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.”
— Wislawa Szymborska
Author: Wislawa Szymborska
Category: respect
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I usually write for the individual reader
“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.”
— Wislawa Szymborska
Author: Wislawa Szymborska
Category: relationship
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All the best have something in common,
“All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.”
— Wislawa Szymborska
Author: Wislawa Szymborska
Category: imagination
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Solitude is very important in my work
“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.”
— Wislawa Szymborska
Author: Wislawa Szymborska
Category: respect
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Solitude is very important in my work
“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.”
— Wislawa Szymborska
Author: Wislawa Szymborska
Category: poetry
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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who
“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.”
— Wislawa Szymborska
Author: Wislawa Szymborska
Category: poetry
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I cannot speak for more than an
“I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.”
— Wislawa Szymborska
Author: Wislawa Szymborska
Category: poetry
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