Quote by Wislawa Szymborska
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an ag

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

Other quotes by Wislawa Szymborska

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality. – Wislawa Szymborska

Category:
Nature
Read Quote

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

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom. – Wislawa Szymborska

Category:
Sympathy
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Imagination
category

Im only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it. – John C. Hawkes

Category:
Imagination

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination. – Bryant H. McGill

Category:
Imagination

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. – Carl Jung

Category:
Imagination

George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, Id do any character he might create. – Peter Mayhew

Category:
Imagination

Random Quotes

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Our Girls”

Category:
Feminism

Im insecure about everything, because… Im never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what Id like to look like. – Cher

Category:
Security

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. – Peter Medawar

Category:
Society

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pitys small change in general society. – Charles Dickens

Category:
Change