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

Wislawa Szymborska · Poetry

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Wislawa Szymborska

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.

Poetry

Wislawa Szymborska

After every war someone has to tidy up.

War

Wislawa Szymborska

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Knowledge

Wislawa Szymborska

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.

Sympathy