#solitude

Solitude is un-American. ↗

— Erica Jong

#un-american

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires. ↗

— Omar Khayyam

#solitude #soul #thoughtful

I didn't choose solitude. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#i #solitude

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#kills #solitude

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#easily #make #power #room #solitude

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#creative #discover #greatest #necessities #solitude

God is absence. God is the solitude of man. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#god #man #solitude

In Letters to a Young Poe, Rilke says, 'The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person's solitude.' That's what I want. For other people to love each other without having to partake in them, to possess them, to allow them to be their own inside their solitude, to protect that. I wish people respected each other's aloneness. I wish I could write something very beautiful and erotic without worrying about people wanting to use me to fulfill some fantasy--which I have no control over, and often, has nothing to do with me--inside themselves. ↗

— Kristen Kosmas

#beauty

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become. ↗

— Leo Szilard

#become #being #does #friends #go

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