My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
Wislawa SzymborskaGod was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
Wislawa SzymborskaThey say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
Wislawa SzymborskaEven boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
Wislawa SzymborskaMost of the earth's inhabitants work to get by. They work because they have to. They didn't pick this or that kind of job out of passion; the circumstances of their lives did the choosing for them. Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries. And there's no sign that coming centuries will produce any changes for the better as far as this goes.
Wislawa Szymborska