I'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else.
Wislawa SzymborskaPoorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
Wislawa SzymborskaIn every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
Wislawa SzymborskaI cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
Wislawa SzymborskaEach 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.
Wislawa Szymborska