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There's simply too much fuss about myself.

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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!

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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

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I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

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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.

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

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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.

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Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?

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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. 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.

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I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

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

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Those who own much have much to fear.

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

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Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

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Facts are many, but the truth is one.

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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

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