Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
Citations
Szymborska, Wisława. "Four in the Morning." Poems New and Collected, 1957-1997. Translated by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998.
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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.