Wisława Szymborska's most famous poems
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Nothing Twice · Cat in an Empty Apartment · The End and the Beginning. (Updated Jul 9, 2026.)
Poems by the Nobel laureate that everyone who went to a Polish school knows, and the ones readers rank highest.
Automatically translated (original in Polski). See the original
Top 14
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Nothing Twice
From Calling Out to Yeti (1957); thanks to Łucja Prus's song the whole country knows it.
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Cat in an Empty Apartment
From The End and the Beginning (1993). Grief seen through a cat's eyes.
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The End and the Beginning
1993. Who cleans up after a war.
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Love at First Sight
1993. About the chances that bring people together; it inspired Kieślowski.
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Some People Like Poetry
1993. An ironic look at how many people really read poems.
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The Joy of Writing
From No End of Fun (1967). On the writer's power over the world on the page.
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Under One Small Star
From Could Have (1972). An apology addressed to everything.
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Could Have
1972. On how chance decides whether we live.
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True Love
1972. A contrarian poem about happy love.
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10
May Be Left Untitled
From People on a Bridge (1986). Someone sits under a tree by a river.
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11
Children of Our Age
1986. Everything is political, even silence.
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12
Utopia
From A Large Number (1976). An island where everything becomes clear.
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13
A Moment
The title poem of her 2002 collection.
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Photograph from September 11
2002. A poem about the people falling from the towers.
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