They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience. — Wislawa Szymborska
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. — Wislawa Szymborska
I don’t believe I have a mission. Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something — Wislawa Szymborska
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look. — Wislawa Szymborska
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. — Wislawa Szymborska
I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. — Wislawa Szymborska
Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance — Wislawa Szymborska
I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins — Wislawa Szymborska
Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy. — Wislawa Szymborska
Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the — Wislawa Szymborska
It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself. — Wislawa Szymborska
Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. — Wislawa Szymborska