Quotes by : Wislawa Szymborska

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

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make....

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.....

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.

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.

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the....