You have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything. Wislawa Szymborska Read Quote
Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? Wislawa Szymborska Read Quote
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work! Wislawa Szymborska Read Quote
I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words. Wislawa Szymborska Read Quote
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me. Wislawa Szymborska Read Quote
At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind. Wislawa Szymborska Read Quote
In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone’s existence in this world. Wislawa Szymborska Read Quote
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. Wislawa Szymborska Read Quote
