Wislawa Szymborska People Quotations

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?

Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.

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 lifes wisdom.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.