“Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.”
Source: Poems New and Collected
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Famous Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
Source: Poems New and Collected
Source: Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997
Source: Map: Collected and Last Poems
Source: Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997
“They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.”
Source: Map: Collected and Last Poems
“And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.”
Source: Map: Collected and Last Poems
Source: Poems New and Collected
Source: Map: Collected and Last Poems
Source: Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997
“All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.”
Source: Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems
Source: Poems New and Collected
Source: Map: Collected and Last Poems
“Somewhere out there the world must have an end.”
Source: Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems
“This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.”
Source: Map: Collected and Last Poems
Source: Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces
“The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.”
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
“Dying - you can't do that to a cat.”
Source: Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997
Source: Monologue of a Dog
“I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.”
Source: Map: Collected and Last Poems
Source: Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997
Source: Map: Collected and Last Poems
Source: Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997
“I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.”
Source: Poems New and Collected
“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.”
Source: Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems
“Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.”
Source: Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems
Source: Map: Collected and Last Poems
“Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.”
Source: Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997
“Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?”
Source: Map: Collected and Last Poems
“Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still”
Source: Map: Collected and Last Poems
“In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.”
Source: Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems
“I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.”
“After every war someone has to tidy up.”
Source: Poems New and Collected
“There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely”
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Source: Poems New and Collected