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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#good #good work #keep #only #tiny

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#lasts #life #sand #scratches

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

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#borrow #hard #i #later #light

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

— Wislawa Szymborska

#new #nothing #nothing new #sun #under

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#devoid #make #mornings #terrifying #up

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

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious. ↗

— Kim Il-sung

#avoid #imperialism #important #independence #more