193 Quotes by Wisława Szymborska

I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out...

I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.

It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.

Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.

I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.

Today when two people decide upon a thoughtless and precipitate abbreviation of the physical space between them, they think, at least at that moment, that they’re mutually attracted and drawn together by an overwhelming force.

I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.