All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. – Wislawa Szymborska
Any knowledge that doesnt lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. – Wislawa Szymborska
In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyones existence in this world. – Wislawa Szymborska
Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. – Wislawa Szymborska