Let 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 SzymborskaWe're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
Wislawa SzymborskaIt's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
Wislawa SzymborskaI 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 Szymborska