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Sometimes I write quickly, so...

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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Someone sits at a table or li...

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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Everyone needs solitude, espe...

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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Sometimes I really have a spi...

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

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All the best have something in...

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

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Let the people who never find ...

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

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After every war someone has to...

After every war someone has to tidy up.

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I have sympathy for young peop...

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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I usually write for the indivi...

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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Solitude is very important in ...

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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In the language of poetry, whe...

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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Unfortunately, poetry is not b...

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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Poetic talent doesn't operate ...

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

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Everyone needs solitude, espec...

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 lea...

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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Each of us has a very rich nat...

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

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I cannot speak for more than a...

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

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I cannot imagine any writer wh...

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

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There's simply too much fuss a...

There's simply too much fuss about myself,

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Generally speaking, life is so...

Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

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