Wislawa Szymborska Quotes


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


Citations

Szymborska, Wisława. "The Poet and the World." Nobel Lectures in Literature 1996-2000, edited by Horace Engdahl, World Scientific Publishing Co., 2002, p. 13.

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Wislawa Szymborska
Wislawa Szymborska
  • Born: July 2, 1923
  • Died: February 1, 2012
  • Nationality: Polish
  • Profession: Poet

Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent, which has since become part of Kórnik, she later resided in Kraków until the end of her life. In Poland, Szymborska's books have reached sales rivaling prominent prose authors', though she wrote in a poem, "Some Like Poetry" ("Niektórzy lubią poezję"), that "perhaps" two in a thousand people like poetry.