February 2, 2012
The Prime Minister on Wisława Szymborska
Tags: wisława szymborska Donald Tusk
"Wisława Szymborska was an important witness of our everyday struggles in the 20th century. She knew how to speak of them in such language which - if one was willing to listen - opened us towards each other due to one simple reason - it reached our deepest human feelings.
"Nothing happens twice", and if this is true, each moment and each thought is unique, because it will never recur. Her poems were as letters - such is my view of them - available for anyone who wished to read and find their own thoughts in them.
She did not expect or counted on honours. When the fame came, she was clearly embarrassed with it. Her friends were her faithful readers. Her answer to the turmoil and noise of the Vistula riverside was optimistic smile and reflection upon the vicissitudes of individual.
In such way I memorized her when she collected her Nobel Prize in 1996, and such also are her poems which she left for us".
President of the Council of Ministers Donald Tusk
She did not expect or counted on honours. When the fame came, she was clearly embarrassed with it. Her friends were her faithful readers. Her answer to the turmoil and noise of the Vistula riverside was optimistic smile and reflection upon the vicissitudes of individual.
In such way I memorized her when she collected her Nobel Prize in 1996, and such also are her poems which she left for us".
President of the Council of Ministers Donald Tusk