Wislawa Szymborska Biography Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996. She is the author of more than fifteen collections of poetry. See Work Spring 2001 One Version of Events By Wislawa Szymborska If indeed we were allowed to choose,we must have been mulling things over for a long time. POETRY / Spring 2001 No Title Required By Wislawa Szymborska It’s all come down to me sitting under a treeon a river bankon a sunny morning.It’s an inconsequential eventthat won’t go down in history. POETRY / Spring 2001 Rubens’ Women By Wislawa Szymborska Herculasses, a feminine fauna.Naked as the crashing of barrels.Cooped up on top of trampled beds. POETRY / Spring 2001 Under A Certain Little Star By Wislawa Szymborska POETRY / Spring 2001 Water By Wislawa Szymborska A raindrop fell on my hand,crafted from the Ganges and the Nile, from the ascended frost of a seal’s whiskers,from water in broken pots in the cities of Ys and Tyre.
