I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.
Wislawa SzymborskaExistentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.
Wislawa SzymborskaPoets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
Wislawa SzymborskaI'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
Wislawa Szymborska