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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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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.

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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.

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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

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I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.

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Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

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Biography

Nationality: Polish

Type: Poet

Born: July 2nd, 1923

Died: February 1st, 2012

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