Quotes by Wislawa Szymborska

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.

Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

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.