Wislawa Szymborska Quotes

You know, I'm worried about Szymborska. I wish she would stop smoking. - Wislawa Szymborska

You have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything. - Wislawa Szymborska

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects. - Wislawa Szymborska

When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work, but I've never pretended it didn't happen to me. - Wislawa Szymborska

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

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

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

There's simply too much fuss about myself. - Wislawa Szymborska

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

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

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