Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
Szymborska, Wisława. "Nothing Twice." Poems New and Collected 1957-1997, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998, p. 34.
We can and do influence life greatly, for the good and the bad. Public health and human extermination of species by over use are good examples.
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.
