Wislawa Szymborska

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these…

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have…

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences…

Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain…

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life…

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such…

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet…

In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal…

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its…

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from…

Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry…

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing…

After every war someone has to tidy up…

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is…