#mo

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#get #here #i #like #lost

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

— Wislawa Szymborska

#best #common #imagination #over #primacy

Each 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

#am #different #different points #distance #duality

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#again #cannot #exclusively #hour #i

I don't believe I have a mission. Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#believe #general #i #mission #more

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

#anything #claim #fuss #i #know

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#anything #common #course #daily #grind

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#am #good #i #i am #important

Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#general #i #more #need #personal

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

— Wislawa Szymborska

#devoid #make #mornings #terrifying #up