More From Wislawa Szymborska
- "I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again."
- "Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That’s what writing is all about."
- "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."
More In War
- "We are not at war against Islam."― Barack Obama
- "Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift."― Denzel Washington
- "War is a contagion."― Franklin D. Roosevelt