Polish - Poet | July 2, 1923 - February 1, 2012
There's simply too much fuss about myself.
Wislawa Szymborska
MyselfToo MuchSimplyMuchAbout
Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I don't believe I have a mission. Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal.
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Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.
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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.
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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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