#solitude

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

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No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes. ↗

— Anna Neagle

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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. ↗

— Octavio Paz

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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

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To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. ↗

— Washington Irving

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Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is. ↗

— William Jay

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Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

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