Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go blindly by, never coming to mind and never really missed. . . . I can't tell you how much I pass over in silence.
Wislawa SzymborskaIn every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
Wislawa SzymborskaGenerally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
Wislawa SzymborskaIt's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
Wislawa Szymborska