Wislawa Szymborska
  • 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.

  • All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

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

  • 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.

  • I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.