Author: Wislawa Szymborska

Quotes

After every war someone has to tidy up.

After every war someone has to tidy up.

- Wislawa Szymborska

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

- Wislawa Szymborska

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

- Wislawa Szymborska

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

- Wislawa Szymborska

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.

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 Szymborska

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

- Wislawa Szymborska

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

- Wislawa Szymborska

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

- Wislawa Szymborska

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