193 Quotes by Wisława Szymborska

I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.

I’m drowning in papers.

It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.

We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.

I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.