Wisława Szymborska quotes - page 7

Millennia have passed since you first called me archaeology. I no longer require your stone gods, your ruins with legible inscriptions. Show me your whatever and I'll tell you who you were. (Wisława Szymborska)
We call it a grain of sand but it calls itself neither grain nor sand. It does just fine without a name, whether general, particular, permanent, passing, incorrect or apt. View quote
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I'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else. Their trademark: they don't repeat a single shape, shade, pose, arrangement. View quote
Wisława Szymborska

Wisława Szymborska

Occupation: Polish Poet
Born: July 2, 1923
Died: February 1, 2012
Quotes count: 153
Wikipedia: Wisława Szymborska

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