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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinki

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

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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

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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

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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 anyones existence in this world. – Wislawa Szymborska

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The poet… may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. – Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination, 1950

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Poetry is creative; to be a poet is to remake the universe. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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