Logo
Quote by Wislawa Szymborska
Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus

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. Thats what writing is all about. – Wislawa Szymborska

Other quotes by 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

Category:
Knowledge
Author
Wislawa Szymborska
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
Author
Wislawa Szymborska
Read Quote

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that theres no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die. – Wislawa Szymborska

Category:
Faith
Author
Wislawa Szymborska
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Category:
Poetry

The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair. – Jose Bergamin

Category:
Poetry

I never think about poetry except when Im writing it. I mean my poetry. – Norman MacCaig

Category:
Poetry

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. – Robert Morgan

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

You might be a firefighter if “climbing the corporate ladder” has nothing to do with career advancement. – Author Unknown

Category:
Firefighters

Im drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale. – Brad Pitt

Category:
architecture

I dont have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies. – Zoe Kazan

Category:
movies

My dream career would be to be in things that have real heart and are telling real stories but while doing that, youre getting really big laughs. I dont necessarily love the straight crazy comedies. Caddyshack is amazing, but theres not a lot of new Caddyshacks. – Jake Johnson

Category:
amazing