Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy. – Dorothy Thompson
