"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."
-Wislawa Szymborska
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"I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.“
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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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"All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination."
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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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"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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"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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