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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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You know, I'm worried about Szymborska. I wish she would stop smoking.

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'There's nothing new under the sun': that's what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun.

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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 anyone's existence in this world.

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You have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

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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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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!

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Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal.

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Biography

Nationality: Polish

Type: Poet

Born: July 2nd, 1923

Died: February 1st, 2012

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