193 Quotes by Wisława Szymborska

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Somewhere out there the world must have an end.

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.