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 Read Quote
It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself. Wislawa Szymborska Read Quote
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings. Wislawa Szymborska Read Quote
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. Wislawa Szymborska Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
