Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light. Wislawa Szymborska Read Quote
Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. Wislawa Szymborska Read Quote
Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything. Wislawa Szymborska Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal. Wislawa Szymborska Read Quote
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. Wislawa Szymborska Read Quote
I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit. Wislawa Szymborska Read Quote
I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet. Wislawa Szymborska Read Quote
Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind. Wislawa Szymborska Read Quote
