Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Wislawa SzymborskaLet the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
Wislawa SzymborskaNothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
Wislawa SzymborskaAll the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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