Wislawa Szymborska

Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#general #i #more #need #personal

Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work! ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#guess #i #i write #love #much

Somewhere out there the world must have an end. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#must #out #somewhere #world

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#borrow #hard #i #later #light

'There's nothing new under the sun': that's what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#new #nothing #nothing new #sun #under

There's simply too much fuss about myself. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#fuss #much #myself #simply #too

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#devoid #make #mornings #terrifying #up

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

— Wislawa Szymborska

#dies #fails #knowledge #lead #life

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. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#born #bus #certainty #crowds #four

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#entire #find #least #lurking #objects