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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.


Wislawa Szymborska


#bad #fighting #i #many #poet

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.


Wislawa Szymborska


#after #anyone #cloud #day #every

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


Wislawa Szymborska


#poetic #poetry #polish #spirit #talent

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.


Wislawa Szymborska


#anything #common #course #daily #grind

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

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.


Wislawa Szymborska


#deny #fortune #group #i #inspiration

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

I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do.


Sharon Creech


#love

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.


Amber Tamblyn


#bored #bush #democracy #era #experienced

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.


Torquato Tasso


#god #merits #name #none #poet