Wisława Szymborska-Włodek (2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.
I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world. Use this quote
Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die. Use this quote
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet. Use this quote
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. Use this quote
Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
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 anyone's existence in this world. Use this quote
