Wislawa Szymborska Quotes & Sayings

“Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.”

“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.”

“When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work, but I've never pretended it didn't happen to me.”

“Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.”

“All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.”

“Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.”

“Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.”

“I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.”

“It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.”

“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.”