"Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry."
― Wislawa Szymborska
Topic(s):
Poetry
More From 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."
- "I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life’s wisdom."
- "After every war someone has to tidy up."
More In Poetry
- "From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not."― Diane Wakoski
- "I like poems that are little games."― Peter Davison
- "I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock’n roll."― Adrian Mitchell