All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
Wislawa Szymborska

I'm drowning in papers.
Wislawa Szymborska

Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice.
Wislawa Szymborska

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.
Wislawa Szymborska

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
Wislawa Szymborska

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Wislawa Szymborska

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.
Wislawa Szymborska

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 life's wisdom.
Wislawa Szymborska