Sustaining Quotes by Wislawa Szymborska

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people…

— Wislawa Szymborska

Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.

— Wislawa Szymborska

I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.

— Wislawa Szymborska

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

— Wislawa Szymborska

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

— Wislawa Szymborska

“Every beginning, after all, is nothing but a sequel, and the book of events is always open in the middle.”

— Wislawa Szymborska

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

— Wislawa Szymborska

Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?

— Wislawa Szymborska

“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…

— Wislawa Szymborska

Most of the earth's inhabitants work to get by. They work because they have to. They didn't pick this or that kind of job…

— Wislawa Szymborska

God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.

— Wislawa Szymborska

Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!

— Wislawa Szymborska

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

— Wislawa Szymborska

I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.

— Wislawa Szymborska

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

— Wislawa Szymborska