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 SzymborskaKeep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
Wislawa SzymborskaExistentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.
Wislawa Szymborska