Wislawa Szymborska Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Writing, Writing Poems, Absurdity

  Wislawa Szymborska, “Possibilities”

• 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.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Writing, People, Rooms

• Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Inspiration, Writing, Born

  Wislawa Szymborska, Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh (2000). “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Revenge, Writing, Hands

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Writing, Able, Sometimes

  "Alone with the Greta Garbo of verse". Interview with James Hopkin, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2000.

• Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Inspiration, Writing, Thinking

  "Alone with the Greta Garbo of verse". Interview with James Hopkin, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2000.

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