Quotes by : Wislawa Szymborska

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature....

In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone....

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something....

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect.....

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

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed....

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

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave....

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