#bout

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#certainty #claims #convictions #doubt #fears

Even the worst book can give us something to think about. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#book #even #give #something #think

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. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#am #different #different points #distance #duality

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

— Wislawa Szymborska

#again #cannot #exclusively #hour #i

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. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#believe #general #i #mission #more

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

#am #good #i #i am #important

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

— Wislawa Szymborska

#general #i #more #need #personal

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. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#born #bus #certainty #crowds #four

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

— Wislawa Szymborska

#i #i wish #know #she #smoking

I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about. ↗

— Ice T

#beat #better #could #figured #first