Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces

Wislawa Szymborska

“Perhaps we wouldn’t talk so much nonsense, tell so many lies, if we knew that they were echoing throughout the cosmos…”

Polish Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska on how the prospect of being alone in the universe can ennoble our humanity – absolutely beautiful read:

Map: Collected and Last Poems

Wislawa Szymborska

Amanda Palmer reads Polish Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska’s beautiful poem “Life While-You-Wait”:

Poems New and Collected

Wislawa Szymborska

“I prefer cunning kindness to the over-trustful kind.”

Amanda Palmer reads Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska’s beautiful poem “Possibilities”: