# Wisława Szymborska's most famous poems

Poems by the Nobel laureate that everyone who went to a Polish school knows, and the ones readers rank highest.

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- Jul 9, 2026 · gdanskbookworm
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## Top 14

1. **Nothing Twice** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From Calling Out to Yeti (1957); thanks to Łucja Prus's song the whole country knows it.
2. **Cat in an Empty Apartment** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From The End and the Beginning (1993). Grief seen through a cat's eyes.
3. **The End and the Beginning** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1993. Who cleans up after a war.
4. **Love at First Sight** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1993. About the chances that bring people together; it inspired Kieślowski.
5. **Some People Like Poetry** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1993. An ironic look at how many people really read poems.
6. **The Joy of Writing** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From No End of Fun (1967). On the writer's power over the world on the page.
7. **Under One Small Star** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From Could Have (1972). An apology addressed to everything.
8. **Could Have** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1972. On how chance decides whether we live.
9. **True Love** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1972. A contrarian poem about happy love.
10. **May Be Left Untitled** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From People on a Bridge (1986). Someone sits under a tree by a river.
11. **Children of Our Age** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1986. Everything is political, even silence.
12. **Utopia** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From A Large Number (1976). An island where everything becomes clear.
13. **A Moment** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The title poem of her 2002 collection.
14. **Photograph from September 11** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2002. A poem about the people falling from the towers.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.