All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. - Wislawa Szymborska 1 Share Now -
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. - Wislawa Szymborska 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
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. - Wislawa Szymborska 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. - Wislawa Szymborska 6 Share Now -
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. - Wislawa Szymborska 7 Share Now -
Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice. - Wislawa Szymborska 8 Share Now -
Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die. - Wislawa Szymborska 9 Share Now -
Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy. - Wislawa Szymborska 10 Share Now -
