Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
Citations
Szymborska, Wisława. "First Love." Poems New and Collected, 1957-1997. Translated by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998.
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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.