Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
Szymborska, Wisława. "Discovery." Poems New and Collected 1957-1997, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998, p. 102.
Greece claims him, but he was born and worked in Asia Minor in what is now Turkey. He was right on and our civilization did not realize that he was correct until 2,000 years later. And we keep discovering smaller and smaller parts.
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.
